Publisher's Synopsis
In this work, Lorna Selfe explains that research over recent years has shown that there is not one such thing as autism but in fact a variety of autistic spectrum disorders. The causes of these, or the reasons for their apparently increasing prevalence in the UK and North America while in many other parts of the world they are hardly recognised at all, remain the subject of intensive research and debate. Selfe strips away the many myths around autism, focusing instead on what we really know about its varieties, causes, and treatments.
